..Accurate diagnosis of eating disorders may facilitate appropriate management of the conditions. Currently, little information is available regarding the accuracy of eating disorder diagnoses made in routine primary care...

Evaluation of a new measure of mood intolerance, the Tolerance of Mood States Scale (TOMS): psychometric properties and associations with eating disorder symptoms

Karina L AllenSchool of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, AustraliaEat Behav 13:326-34. 2012

..This research aimed to (i) validate a new measure of mood intolerance, the Tolerance of Mood States (TOMS) scale, and (ii) to examine associations between TOMS scores and eating pathology...

The effectiveness of enhanced cognitive behavioural therapy for eating disorders: an open trial

..Overall, the findings indicated that CBT-E results in significant improvements, in both eating and more general psychopathology, in patients with all eating disorders attending an outpatient clinic...

Overconcern with weight and shape is not the same as body dissatisfaction: evidence from a prospective study of pre-adolescent boys and girls

..Findings provide support for the theoretical differences between body dissatisfaction and overconcern with weight and shape, and highlight the importance of focusing on specific body image variables...

Neurocognitive functioning in adolescents with eating disorders: a population-based study